Proverbs 24:29
Do not say, “As he did to me, so I do to him, || I render to each according to his work.”
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work.
In Context
28Do not be a witness against your neighbor for nothing, || Or you have enticed with your lips.
30I passed by near the field of a slothful man, || And near the vineyard of a man lacking heart.
Cross References
Judges 15:11And three thousand men of Judah go down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and say to Samson, “Have you now known that the Philistines are rulers over us? And what [is] this you have done to us?” And he says to them, “As they did to me, so I did to them.”
Proverbs 20:22Do not say, “I repay evil,” || Wait for YHWH, and He delivers you.
Matthew 5:39but I say to you not to resist the evil, but whoever will slap you on your right cheek, turn to him also the other;
1 Thessalonians 5:15see [that] no one may render evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue that which is good, both to one another and to all;
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 24:29-30
28 Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips. 29 Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work. We are here forbidden to be in any thing injurious to our neighbour, particularly in and by the forms of law, either, 1. As a witness: "Never bear a testimony against any man without cause, unless what thou sayest thou knowest to be punctually true and thou hast a clear call to testify it. Never bear a false testimony against… Read the whole commentary →